This limited-release Chardonnay is made from 100% hand-picked and whole-bunch pressed chardonnay grapes. The juice is fermented in new, one and two-year-old French oak utilising the yeasts naturally occurring in this special single vineyard site tucked within the hills of Margaret River’s Wallcliffe subregion. The wine was fermented over a three-week period then topped and stored at 15°C, unsulphured with sporadic battonage for eight months in barrel. Our winemaker selected only the best, most pure and expressive barrels to be included in this blend. Wrights Family Release Chardonnay was bottled on 12 December 2023.

Bright straw in colour with flashes of green, the nose is a lovely combination of sea breeze, ripe citrus and stone fruits with the slightest nuance of flint and cedar-like oak. The palate is a triumph of understated fruit weight and purity. It rolls in waves of white nectarine and fresh lime juice with the most amazing length of flavour and elegant concentration of fruit weight.

This will be an amazing wine on release but it will gain complexity and intrigue over the next five to eight years in bottle.

Please contact us for more information and release details.